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Plato Quotes - Page 3

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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

Wisdom, Plato, Business

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

Animal, Men, Savages

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

Inspirational, Passion, Essentials

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Hope For The Future, Lanterns, Ifs

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

Wise, Giving, Imagination

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato, Democracies Have, Political

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Desire, Doe, Fit

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato, Freedom, Men

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

Artist, Reality, Giving

Do not expect justice where might is right.

Wisdom, Justice, Might

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Soul, Awakening, Privilege

You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

Talking, Years, Hours

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.60, Courier Corporation

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Truth, Honesty, Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

Truth, Honesty, Pride

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Parenting, Parent, Quarrels

You can't do good if you don't feel good.

Feel Good, Feels, Ifs

The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

Spiritual, Country, Dark

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

Bad Friend, Enemy, Good Enemy

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Life, Worth Living, Self Discovery

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

Prison, Slave, Persons

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Money, War, Sake

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

Law, Needs, Reign

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

Optimism, Age, Pressure

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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